BRITAIN should consider offering rewards to people who get vaccinated, a senior MP has said.

It came as Harwich and North Essex MP Sir Bernard Jenkin told the Commons he was disappointed with the current jab uptake.

He said: “Can I confess to some disappointment that the daily vaccination rate is not being sustained at the higher level.

“What is the constraint? Is it supply, is it logistics or is it that the hard-to-reach groups are slower in coming forward?

“And what consideration is the Government giving to what is happening in other countries, like the United States, where people are being offered some kind of reward for coming forward and accepting a vaccination?”

Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said the vaccination rates in the UK have been “incredibly high”, adding: “We’re doing everything we can to make sure every cohort, every ethnicity, has the ability to access the vaccine.”